From 107b27ef809e4356ea258cbd820967ffb8fa0875 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Magnus=20Lid=C3=A9n?= Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 09:23:29 +0100 Subject: Correct and clean up documentation The build and install documentation was not complete and needed some restructuring. --- README.md | 11 ++++++++++- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'README.md') diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index a6a4f11be8..bf80b6391b 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -12,6 +12,15 @@ middle-ware to develop these systems. It includes its own distributed database, applications to interface towards other languages, debugging and release handling tools. +ERTS and BEAM +------------- +**BEAM** is the name of the virtual machine where all Erlang code is executed. +Every compiled Erlang file has the suffix .beam. The virtual machine +is sometimes referred to as the emulator. + +**ERTS** is the Erlang Runtime System where the BEAM, kernel and +standard libraries amongst others are included. + More information can be found at [erlang.org] [1]. Building and Installing @@ -57,7 +66,7 @@ Copyright and License > %CopyrightBegin% > -> Copyright Ericsson AB 2010-2012. All Rights Reserved. +> Copyright Ericsson AB 2010-2014. All Rights Reserved. > > The contents of this file are subject to the Erlang Public License, > Version 1.1, (the "License"); you may not use this file except in -- cgit v1.2.3